Ezekiel 36
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March 8, 2010
Correctional Facilities
Ezekiel 36
EARS TO HEAR is the radio ministry of FAMILIES•BY GOD• For EARS TO HEAR, here’s Tim Glisson.
America is in deep trouble and no one is talking about it.
Sure we’ll discuss the current conflict in Iraq or we’ll compare the dollar to the Euro and shake our heads in both surprise and shame, but our crisis is not military nor economic.
We’ll complain about medical care and health insurance and long for the good ole days when all’s you needed was a family doctor to tend to both, but the lack of health care doesn’t even compare.
No the real catastrophe is the close to three million kids in America whose moms and dads are in prison. It’s a critical problem because it will end up costing many of those children their lives too, close to 70 percent of kids who grow up with a parent in prison will end up in prison.
It’s a critical problem because it will end up costing taxpayers more than all the military, economic, and health care crises combined.
But it’s a critical problem mostly because it’s breaking our Lord’s heart. He made us for his glory. Disobedience creating the fatherless is a double hit. The answer isn’t in our corrections facilities, if they were correcting anything we wouldn’t have a five-fold increase in our prison population since 1970.
No the answer is in God’s correction of our facilities. “Return unto me”, He says in Ezekiel 36 and “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you”. The only correction necessary is getting right with God.
If you have EARS to HEAR God’s heart for all of His children, please visit our website at FAMILIESBYGOD.org. For EARS TO HEAR, I’m Tim Glisson.
